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| Click Button | Behaviour | Description | Locality, Date | Author |
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Play-chase | The adult male and his juvenile son (about 3.5 years old) take turns at chasing each other through a tree crown. | Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, Malaysia, Aug. 2004 | Yoichi Inoue |
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Play-grapple | The adult male, suspended from a branch by one arm, play-grapples with his juvenile son (about 3.5 years old), until the latter falls down. | Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, Malaysia, Aug. 2004 | Yoichi Inoue |
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Climb | The adult male climbs a thick vertical tree stem by using its long arms to hold on to the tree, and its legs to climb. Every two steps, the gibbon moves its grip upward. Halfway up the tree, the gibbon inserts a short break. Climbing vertical stems may be relatively energy consuming, even for a gibbon. | Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, Malaysia, Dec. 2002 | Yoichi Inoue |
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Jump | The juvenile female makes a jump of several meters from one tree crown to the next. | Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, Malaysia, Dec. 2002 | Yoichi Inoue |
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Drink | The adult male drinks water from a tree hole in typical gibbon fashion: the gibbon dips the hand in the water and then licks the water from the fur on his hand and wrist. | Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, Malaysia, Dec 2002 | Yoichi Inoue |
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Song: introductory sequence | Introductory sequence of a duet song bout. The juvenile/subadult female (upper left) and the adult male (centre) exchange wa and oo notes at the beginning of a duet song bout. The female wanders out of the picture, the male remains remains almost stationary. | Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, Malaysia, 09:21 a.m., 31 Dec. 2002 | Yoichi Inoue |
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Song: female great call | The female runs out of the picture at the beginning of her great call and can be seen running along a branch, carrying her infant, at the end of the great call. | Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, Malaysia, 09:35 a.m., 31 Dec. 2002 | Yoichi Inoue |
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Bipedal run | An adult gibbon runs along a horizontal branch, with its arms held high above her. | Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, Malaysia, Aug. 2001 | Yoichi Inoue |
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Hand-to-hand touch | The juvenile female touches the adult male's hands with both of her hands. The receiver moves position. | Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, Malaysia, Aug. 2001 | Yoichi Inoue |
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Male song | Solitary adult male "Doudou", singing. Middle stage of solo song bout. Branch shaking and squeals are also part of the song. Near the end of the take, the gibbon briefly exhibits an upside-down position. | Paris Vincennes, France, 27 June 1993 | Thomas Geissmann |
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Male song | Solitary adult male "Doudou", singing. This sequence directly follows the one shown above. Branch shaking and squeals also occur. | Paris Vincennes, France, 27 June 1993 | Thomas Geissmann |
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Male song | Solitary adult male "Doudou", singing. Short excerpt from later in the song bout, with the gibbon briefly exhibiting an upside-down position, again. | Paris Vincennes, France, 27 June 1993 | Thomas Geissmann |
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Male song | Solitary adult male "Doudou", singing. Late stage of solo song bout. Branch shaking and squeals also occur. | Paris Vincennes, France, 27 June 1993 | Thomas Geissmann |
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